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In a bid to prevent young people smoking, New York has become the first U.S. city to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco and electronic cigarettes from 18 to 21. (Photo by Ed Yourdon)

New York City council raises legal age for tobacco to 21

New York’s City Council voted to raise the legal age to buy tobacco products and electronic cigarettes to 21 from 18, making New York the first major U.S. city to raise the minimum age.

Bloomberg

Tobacco firms slammed over report on candy-flavored cigar smoking by teens

Al Jazeera

Leaked documents reveal the secret finances of a pro-industry science group

Mother Jones

The heavy-lifting ‘mule women’ of Melilla

Every day, Melilla’s “mule women” carry heavy loads across the border between the Spanish enclave and Morocco — and if the women can carry them, they can be imported in to Morocco duty-free.

BBC

Syrian chemical weapons factories destroyed

Syria has destroyed all of its declared chemical weapons facilities, meeting a key deadline in an ambitious disarmament program, the chemical weapons watchdog OPCW said.

Guardian

Fragile peace holds on a Syrian Island

IPS

Why destroying Syria’s chemical weapons is hard

NPR

Refugee influx causes unease in Cameroon

Cameroon is grappling with the influx of over a hundred thousand refugees from neighboring Central African Republic and Nigeria, whose presence is causing tensions with the local population.

IRIN News

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On the road from Nigeria to Cameroon

(Economist)

Baobab

Roma stereotypes: how racist assumptions fueled fiasco

When Greek police stumbled upon a blond, blue-eyed girl when raiding a Roma settlement, it triggered a wave of worries fed by long-held stereotypes.

Spiegel International

The Roma not in the news

Economist

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Donor nations should spend aid cash at home to recover stolen assets - OECD

Donors should be “daring” and “innovative” and use aid money to recover assets stolen from developing countries, a senior OECD official said, adding that this offered the best possible returns.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

How good are Goodwill Ambassadors?

Humanitarian professionals tend to cringe at the spectacle of khaki-clad celebrities handing out food rations, but there is no denying the global attention and resources that well-known personalities can summon.

IRIN News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Child mothers set to double by 2030, says UN

The number of girls who become mothers before they are 15 years old is set nearly to double in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, according to a new United Nations report.

allAfrica.com

Teen motherhood: How does Latin America stack up?

Christian Science Monitor

Fewer North Koreans fleeing to South Korea, UN rights envoy says

Fewer North Koreans are fleeing to South Korea, possibly due to tighter border control and cases of asylum seekers being returned home by China, a U.N. rights envoy said.

Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

UK profits from Indonesia’s destructive mining industry

Funded by British investment, mining brings deforestation, health problems and pollution to Samarinda, part of “coal’s last frontier.”

Guardian

Abe vows atomic safety as Turkey buys plant

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to boost Japan’s efforts to ensure the safety of nuclear power after one of its firms won an order to build an atomic plant in Turkey.

Japan Times

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

No drugs, no executions: Is this the end of the death penalty?

As states scramble to find new lethal cocktails, a lack of options could spell the end of capital punishment.

The Atlantic

Cambodia’s autumn of discontent

Rallies continue after opposition‘s election loss, which they say was marred by “serious irregularities”, and there have been few concessions to compromise over the disputed result.

Al Jazeera

Blog:

In Cambodia, monks get political after unpopular elections

(GlobalPost)

Belief

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

iHealth Lab unleashes glucose monitor that syncs with mobile devices

iHealth Lab presents its FDA-approved Wireless Smart Gluco-Monitoring System — a portable Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose monitor that allows readings to sync automatically to iOS or Android devices.

CNET News

Model virus structure shows why there’s no cure for common cold

In a pair of landmark studies, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have constructed a three-dimensional model that shows why there is no cure yet for the common cold.

ScienceDaily

Five ways to stop a cold in its tracks

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (David Wogan):

When, not if, China taps into shale gas

(Scientific American)

Plugged In

Editorial:

Why a UN victory in Africa marks a new day for peace

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett):

As children grow, the poverty divide cuts deeper

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Veil of darkness lifts for Myanmar’s blind

Decades of isolation, military rule and woeful health care have left Myanmar with one of the highest rates of blindness. Now, the darkness is starting to lift thanks to a new surgical procedure.

San Francisco Chronicle

Solar mosquito trap could reduce malaria in Western Kenya

A solar-powered mosquito trap is showing early signs of helping to lower the incidence of malaria on Rusinga Island, in Western Kenya.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Amazon will now donate part of your purchase to charity

Amazon buyers who want to give to charity can now do their shopping via the AmazonSmile site, which will dole out 0.5 percent of your total purchase to any one of a million eligible charities.

CNET News

Inside the hidden world of thefts, scams and phantom purchases at the nation’s nonprofits

A Washington Post analysis of tax filings from 2008 to 2012 found more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations that checked the box indicating that they had discovered a “significant diversion” of assets.

Washington Post

ENVIRONMENT

Peru’s dolphin slaughter

Off Peru’s Pacific coast, thousands of dolphins are being slaughtered to be used solely as shark bait — despite the practice being outlawed by the South American country.

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Lightning-detection network tested out for storm tracking

Lightning-detection sensors installed atop just 12 mobile-phone towers now allow Guinea’s meteorological service to track storms nationwide as they develop.

Scientific American

Photo of the Day

Without funding for a Doppler RADAR system, government meteorologists in Guinea are tracking storms using flashes of lightning to signal apps on 12 mobile phone towers. (Photo by Bruce Guenter)

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